Tuesday, 4 March 2008

There is no bigger Surry Hills party than the annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras!

This was my first year to attend and I can tell you that it was worth enduring the freezing 17 degree C evening, the crazy bag-wielding Japanese tourists and the fence of people on egg crates and $2 plastic stools (bought at $10 from a guy with a trailer) to see the fabulous parade. TV can not do it justice. The vibe is amazing. The crowd is happy. It's the most fantastic celebration I've seen in a long long time.

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I am a nomad. I travel a lot for work and for fun. For the last 20 years, I have been building big web applications that business wants and users like to use. I've worked for federal gov, large media organisations, banks and a couple of startups in the areas of mobile technology and vision tracking. I was at ThoughtWorks for a while being agile and having fun as a polyglot programmer. Then I was a Developer Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft where I was the Asia Pacific ASP.NET MVC Lead, an agile software development coach and a languages and integration specialist.
For a while, I was playing in .gov.au as an Architect building Voice Authentication for Aussie citizens. My further adventures see me delivering more large systems for gov.au. Now I'm living in Seattle and working for a large book store. I love cats, cocktails and cooking. People are more important than things. Ideas drive the world.
I do not speak for my employer. All opinions are my own.